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The hours of meetings that have made up my last two weeks is unsustainable. And I am so tired. And I've gotten so little actual work done. My COVID shot tonight is my excuse to do just about nothing tomorrow.

Preservationists and lovers of history, we are celebrating an anniversary and a call to fight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBCF...

"the area (between King Street and Union Stations) is difficult to navigate due to a combination of roadway design, vehicle operation patterns, and aging infrastructure." Translation: Cars are the problem. www.soundtransit.org/sites/defaul...

Today, I looked up numbers on my laptop, wrote them with pencil on paper, found my calculator & did math, then put said numbers into a spreadsheet and ran calculations. I ended up with three different answers. Health insurance is a giant scam.

If you're a tea drinker, buy tea here. You won't regret it. If you're not a tea drinker, buy your tea drinker friends tea here. In my household, we've been trying to make a few more local swaps -- less mega grocery, more investing in our neighborhoods. So tea is a big one for us, and zero regrets.

Hell, yeah. I know the suffrage movement was far from perfect, and I'm still grateful they tried.

It's really nice to read good news about voting in the US. I wish it weren't so rare. Go Hawai'i.

When does the amount of tea I drink become an actual problem? Took a work break (at home today). Made two cups of tea, a jar of hibiscus tea for later (I like to mix it with my decaf black), a pitcher out on the porch for sun tea, and a 2nd steeping of hibiscus with a black Chinese tea. #TeaIsLife

Seattle officially holds the Guinness World Record for the largest dim sum meal/gathering, with 830 participants setting the record on June 18, 2026.The event took place in the heart of the city and showcased exactly how this record was achieved and celebrated:

I love this article -- I know that it doesn't always feel possible to make a difference. But spending locally does matter. southseattleemerald.org/voices/2026/...

Today was a lot, back to work after a month. So, cats

Today's cryptic note from past me, on a post-it: "trout on a waffle."

I'm clearing out a box of papers. I am loving the cryptic notes I'm finding, both tiny pieces of paper and also just random shite at the end of spiral notebooks. Ex: under the header "Look Up": *Pushkar festival -- India, Rajastan *PEPPER -- bell vs spices? *Pontius Pilate -- Sevilla

This is not the Sound Transit Board Meeting I wanted to miss being in person for -- after 5 years of working on ST3 for South Downtown. These system decisions are so important! But, damnit, so is my health, I guess. Thanks, COVID, for more virtual access to public meetings.

I'm now one week out from my hysterectomy and my nap/tv/tea routine is being ruined by a crew jackhammering my road for a mystery project.

I made tulips happen. I am magic. Well, past MK was magic.

Turnip just cannot today.

I wait for the streetcar near an elementary school playground. Just saw a teacher run by with a group of kids. My mom's second career was a 4th grade teacher who LOVED recess -- and her students loved her for it. I don't have a point. Just a fond memory & an appreciation for outdoor breaks.

#OnThisDay in 1962, Wing Luke was elected to Seattle City Council, becoming the council's first non-white member and the first Chinese American elected to a major post in the continental US. historylink.org/File/716

My partner texted me he wants to buy a book this weekend. Instead of asking what book, I immediately asked which store. I live in a place where I can ask that. I am so lucky.

Love sitting at my desk working, waiting for other people to vote on funding my work. So cozy.

The cover of this report is forever imprinted in my brain, and I'm very very grateful to @rmartincole.bsky.social for this whole thread. HISTORY IS FASCINATING, Y'ALL.

Just accidentally typed "EDO" into a crossword instead of "ECO" and I'm left wondering what an Edo-friendly world might look like. I was briefly obsessed with Edo Period art in college, but not enough to really understand the culture.

Fascism remains ascendant & DHS (among many other alarming activities) is snapping up huge buildings for its expanding network of concentration camps. It is, of course, encouraging to see cracks in the dam & I wrote about that (& u can just skip to help links at end) www.moryan.com/the-crack-in...

Ooo, flashback. Dante's Divine Comedy The Art of the Apocalypse History of the Soviet Union Sacred Spaces in East Asia Women in Theatre

Starting last autumn we also saw student debt reduction offered in exchange for joining ICE. A country that provided these freedoms to everybody - actual affordable housing and free higher education - would’ve already removed the economic incentive to participate in a modern day slave patrol.

I just had to reprint my talk for tonight's panel because I forgot I had my screen size increased and I'm too old for size 11 font. And I'm old enough that I like paper. BUT I get to be at History Cafe with @mohaiseattle.bsky.social tonight, and I am stoked. mohai.org/event/histor...

Among other things, this past year has ruined superlatives for me. They are meaningless. The number of times I've said "that is the dumbest thing...", "that is the stupidest idea...." EST has ceased to have any meaning other than a time zone for the part of the year.

Make it viral.

Just confirmed this Lime + transit hack works.

This Seattle cat story is the best Christmas Eve present ever (I say this as an agnostic on the holidays in general, but a true believer in cats). www.thestranger.com/news/2025/12...

It's a really good time of year to be on specialty doc waiting lists if your schedule is flexible. Got a waiting list spot instead of waiting until March.

It's actually incredibly wild to be talking about the second tunnel outside of the context of other cost savings measures for Ballard Link, which Sound Transit's capital team is actively working on. The process around this discussion just plain stinks.

How does this Ballard Link stub end concept affect West Seattle Link? Why is it so hard to get systems views in Sound Transit's work?

We need a little trans joy in our lives today so we're lifting the paywall on @katelynburns.com's iconic Trans on Trains story.

Decades ago, my parents moved us from a walkable school neighborhood in the midwest to a sprawling suburb in the southeast. I'm still mad about never getting to bike to school -- we walked, but you had to be in 5th grade to bike, and we moved first. It was the sign of being a Big Kid that I missed.

My poor rescue cat came home from his dental with 16 less teeth. After 2 last year. His 5 years.of street life didn't come with dental.

Two of the bus stops at 12th and Jackson in Little Saigon, Seattle are closed again, through March according to KC Metro. We did this last year -- as a "last resort." 2 people on my bus yesterday said it was so cops could more easily harass the people who spend time there. They might be right?

After so many years of trying to calculate hectares, just once a year each year for reporting to @altnps.bsky.social it finally came in useful. I mean, just as a crossword clue, but still.

It's really fun to keep receiving reminders from my healthcare group to schedule my mammogram -- I've been trying for 6 weeks. The ONLY technician at the location I normally go to is out for at least 4 months. I do not live in a rural area; this is a city, my location is a mid-sized medical center.

"Seattle citizens live the act of planning, but they are reticent about submitting to the discipline of following a plan." Walt Crowley in 1993 writing about our failed 1970 Forward Thrust transit gambit. *Sigh*

In building future and alternative worlds, the way people get around can be used to reveal and ask questions about societies, technologies, and politics. Join us at 6pm on Tuesday, 9/16 learn how descriptions of public transit in fiction shape the worlds of our imagination. luma.com/0olo6szj

HAPPENING NOW: the Sound Transit board is getting new details of the full long-term financial deficit impacting the agency over the long term. CEO Dow Constantine just told board members that the agency faces a 20-25% funding shortfall through 2046, a gap that translates to $30-$40 billion dollars.

It's possible a wheelchair could go over this hole, but a walker or a cane or a foot could easily get caught. This warning seems less than ideal. #soundtransit #seattle #safetyfail.

#seattle #tree folks -- you have an opportunity Saturday morning to meaningfully support trees in #chinatownid at the Spring Clean -- Sign up for tree maintenance at signup.com/go/swwpoNZ These trees directly affect the health of one of our immigrant neighborhoods. (ends at noon, on the streetcar)

I stand with librarians -- the LOC cannot have "inappropriate" books -- if such things exist. It collects all our books.

Sentences said in utter absurdity: "Don't you dare have thoughts about my broccoli." She did have thoughts. And claws. #cats